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  Always on and no mod tools? Pass now. : vertdang
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    Buy it, crack it. Never mess with that bullshit DRM. Treat your paying customers like criminals, your ... : vertdang
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      Or just pirate it... as I posted elsewhere below: "I was going to buy Sim City V, but if it has always-on... : pizzaput
      • http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/02/19 : kreed_uk
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  "We're not idiots." "The game will use the contentious always-online DRM method, even during private, ... : hvaccontrols
  • To true. : icedcool
  • Thats too bad, some of the screens looked neat. oh well NEXT : Turd Ferguson
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  is there an example of a pc game with this sort of DRM that wasn't pirated like everything else? does it ... : [fry]
  • WoW can be pirated...private servers, that type of thing. I don't think DRM has ever worked in the his... : bill crystals
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    Nope. I think these, they crack in record time because the groups see it more as a challenge, while th... : icedcool
    • "while the companies that pay respect to their consumers rather than treating them as enemies, they don't... : underground banana plantation
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    Pretty much all DRM gets broken eventually. At this point, it seems like the point of DRM is just loss p... : DrWaffles
    • I think that's a pretty good conclusion since a lot of devs even release patches that remove DRM after so... : aethyr
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    The only thing that DRM does is make customers turn into pirates. It won't turn pirates into customers. ... : DewFuel
    • Well said. +1 : kwperley
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      If you buy the game and then crack it so you can play offline does that still make you a pirate? : CtrlFrk
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        No. I also believe if you download a game without paying for it, just for yourself to play, does not m... : FesterBlatz
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          Uh. Pretty sure you're dead wrong about your assertion that if you download a game without paying for it,... : Rice-Rocketeer
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            How can an opinion be wrong? : FesterBlatz
            • Very easily? When did this thing start where people think that opinions can't be wrong? What is that? : Ebu
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              pretty easily, especially when it contradicts known facts. It should be easy enough for you to think of o... : derelict515
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                LOL, nice replies guys (not sarcasm). Well I do not think your opinions are wrong. Anyway, I'll ela... : FesterBlatz
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                  I should have also said, even though I kinda touched on it in the last bracketed bit, is that I am not sa... : FesterBlatz
                  • Wow, are you serious? Opinions can't be wrong? So if I think it's okay to take someones life, that's fine... : Curike
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        You bought the game, so you're not pirating that bit. One can argue that distributing a modified execu... : DrWaffles
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          Well by that rationale "modding" would be copyright infringement. : icon_of_syn
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            no, because that would be covered in the EULA if it was sanctioned by the developer or publisher. Steam' : DrWaffles
            • I wonder if EA has something in the EULA for Crysis mods. (Like the Mechwarrior mod) It doesn't surpri... : icon_of_syn
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        I'm sure the DMCA has something about modifying the game code or something. : Ebu
        • DMCA makes it illegal to break the 'locks' on digital stuff. : Beady
      • You'll be violating the ToS or EULA somewhere though. : mobab
      • I had to crack my legal copy of Assassin's Creed 2 just to be able to play it. The authentication servers... : Mr. Goodwrench
    • Oh, I was going to buy Sim City V, but if it has always-online DRM then I'm just going to pirate it. I do... : pizzaput
• Looks like I wont be picking this up until the mod tools come out, and the price comes down. Or the DRM i... : NexusOne
• where's my new simcopter game with double the trannies? : burningpantsman
• Welp, there went all my interest for this game. : carbontree
• Moar like SimPiracy, amirite? : Ride-My-Rocket
• So what about this comment from the interview posted earlier? http://www.shacknews.com/article/73061/one-... : Haxim
• it will be cracked in 2 days and this will only impact people who actually paid for it. they just don't g... : peat
• I am overjoyed that I am no longer in the Navy because of shit like this. My copy of Daemon Tools' author... : Squirrely
• ffffffffffffffffffffffffff : MOOMANiBE
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  Can we just erase EA and Ubisoft from existing at this point? : NFXFSX
  • Lets put a kickstarter up to buy EA hahahahahahahaha : pwnjoo
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    No because they make tons of awesome games : OverloadUT
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      The publish tons of awesome games. : mobab
      • Publishing is part of making : OverloadUT
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    Can this story have 3 endings? : lcizzle
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      Pick your colors. : NFXFSX
      • Brown, yellow-brown and green-brown. : Kub666
• Not surprised. EA screws up everything. Pass. : terath
• I would be ok with always on DRM for a new SimGolf : Degenerate
• I assumed this game would use Origin anyway, yes? So I have pretty much already made up my mind to not bu... : FesterBlatz
• No thank you. : capt tripps
• We all saw this coming. Sorry, boys and girls, EA & Origin has fucked it up. : jrbstereo
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  http://i43.tinypic.com/1pghep.jpg : AgentPothead
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    goddamn that second panel is saddening. i haven't played a pandemic game aside from battlefront a few ti... : DrWaffles
    • The Saboteur, Mercenaries, Destroy all Humans, Battlefront, Full Spectrum Warrior. In order from most to ... : AgentPothead
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    Shouldn't Looking Glass, and really, Origin Systems, be in that ditch as well? : AxeMan808
    • Why Looking Glass? They were more of a suicide (and were never owned by EA). : acheron
• If it's going to run through Origin, I fail to see why this is necessary at all... : darthfusion
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  You know what? I want them to do it. I want them to take their flagship moneymaker brand and slap this ri... : Home Nugget
  • I think that most people don't really care or aren't aware of it (or the problems it could cause) until i... : DrWaffles
  • They won't "learn their lesson"; they'll just become another Zynga. : the archvile
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    that casuals are used to playing shit on facebook which requires online an online connection. they won't... : dantastic
    • Shit. I didn't think of that. Shit. : Home Nugget
    • MY TOMATOES : d fluke
  • Nah they'll just resort by not making those kind of games and push in a different direction. : disembodied potato
• Why not also have the DRM periodically log the customer out forcing the customer to have to relog in. You... : dookiebot
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  I was going to buy Sim City V, but if it has always-online DRM then I'm just going to pirate it. I don't ... : pizzaput
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    but pretty much ALL games are evolving to be online. is your piracy going to go up accordingly? why ... : Downforce
    • People want the freedom to do what they want with the product they bought. : Firefly1985
    • I think I have over 200 games bought on Steam. Online initial activation is no prob. Needing to be online... : pizzaput
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  They could eliminate 90% of the complaints and problems by switching to a daily check instead of needing ... : harvord
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    The Diablo 3 situation is a lame excuse to protect Blizzards $ inflow on their new D3AH cash cow. : capt tripps
    • Interesting to note that requiring you to be online all the time means that all your chars are forced-leg... : MOOMANiBE
• will there be limited installs too? : Unleashed
• That's my purchase they've lost, same as with Diablo 3. I hope many others do the same, because treating... : bladderfish
• Videogames are going in a shitty direction! That's it! I'm out. : Chipwarrior
• It doesn't bode well for other EA franchises. : Kub666
• Origin? Check. Always-on DRM? Check. Ok guys time to get working on some shitty DLC. Wait we don't have t... : pantsburgh
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  No mod tools? Are these guys insane? The greatest thing about SimCity 4 is the intensive modding communit... : Mr. Goodwrench
  • Okay, read the other article that stated SC5 will not not support modding initially much like SC4. So thi... : Mr. Goodwrench